Apple's mailer is annoying ( was Re: [Zope3-dev] Contained events interface inheritance order)

[Florent Guillaume]

On 30 Nov 2005, at 21:03, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> On 30 Nov 2005, at 17:04, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Florent Guillaume wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 30 Nov 2005, at 13:17, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> (Is there some reason for the urls you give to have spaces in  
>>>>> them?
>>>>> It makes them harder to follow. It appears that this is a mac  
>>>>> thing.
>>>>> It's rather annoying.)
>>>>
>>>> This is the delsp parameter of rfc3676, which apparently only   
>>>> Apple  Mail implements, I've no idea why the other mailers  
>>>> haven't  followed  suit.
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps because it is really annoying?
>> Only because Mozilla doesn't implement that RFC :-). Otherwise  
>> you'd  be able to see perfectly wrapped messages and non-broken URLs.
>
> I don't see how.  Here's an excerpt of the raw source of your message:
>
> " From the archives I can find this was decided after:
> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/
> SimplifyObjectLifecycleAndLocationEvents
> but without motivation for this part. I'm still looking for the"
>
>
> There is no way for my mail client to know that
> "http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/"  
> and
> "SimplifyObjectLifecycleAndLocationEvents" should be clued together.
> URLs often end in "/"s.  Implicitly joining text following a "/" is  
> fairly
> likely to lead to invalif URLs.

Actually in the raw source there's a space after the / and before the  
CRLF. When delsp=Yes (which is the case in the original headers Apple  
Mail sends), and when the line is deemed "flowed" (which is the case  
here because the line ends with a space), the lines should be joined  
and one space character removed.

Florent

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